Bartramia Hedw.

• Authority

  Buck, William R. 2003. Guide to the plants of central french Guiana. Part 3. Mosses. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 76: 1-167.

• Family

  Bartramiaceae

• Scientific Name

  Bartramia Hedw.

• Description

  
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  Genus Description - Plants small to robust, usually tufted; stems simple or variously branched, often tomentose. Leaves little contorted when dry, linear to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate or less often acute or obtuse; margins usually toothed, the teeth sometimes in pairs, elimbate; costa single, subpercurrent to long-excurrent; cells subquadrate to long-rectangular, usually prorulose at 1 or both ends, rarely over the lumina, less com-monly smooth; basal cells sometimes differentiated. Asexual reproduction rare. Perichaetia usually terminal on stems; leaves not much differentiated. Setae short to elongate; capsules erect to cemuous, mostly asymmetric, subglobose, ovoid, or oblong-cylindric, often furrowed when dry; peristome usually double, rarely single (just exostome) or absent; exostome teeth papillose or striate on outer surface; endostome usually with a low basal membrane and split, divergent segments, cilia usually rudimentary or absent. The Bartramiaceae are best recognized by their rectangular, prorulose laminal cells and subglobose, furrowed capsules.